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Annotator:
Denig, Edwin Thompson, 1812-1858  Search this
Collection Collector:
Denig, Edwin Thompson, 1812-1858  Search this
Extent:
7 Items (drawings on 1 mount, ink on blue chain layed paper, tracing cloth, and Manila paper, mounted on paper, mount 26 x 19 cm.)
Culture:
Assiniboine (Stoney)  Search this
Indians of North America -- Great Plains  Search this
Type:
Archival materials
Ledger drawings
Date:
ca. 1853
Scope and Contents:
Inscriptions read: "Fig 1 Elk Shin Bone", "Fig 2 Elk horn iron tool", "Lancet", "Horn for cupping", "Wah heent Kah tool for scraping hides as shaving the skin Fig 2", "Wah heem pack pah Tool for fleshing the hide". Two drawings are on blue chain layed paper, 1 is on architecht's linen, and 4 on manilla paper.
Local Numbers:
NAA INV 08690100 NAA MS 2600-B-1
Place:
United States North Dakota Fort Union.
United States Dakota Territory Fort Union.
Album Information:
MS 2600B1 009
Topic:
Assiniboin  Search this
Genre/Form:
Ledger drawings
Collection Citation:
Manuscript 2600-b-1, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
See more items in:
MS 2600-b-1 Anonymous Assiniboine drawings to illustrate Edwin Denig's "Indian Tribes of the Upper Missouri"
Archival Repository:
National Anthropological Archives
GUID:
https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nw327d7ddd6-ded6-43d5-b168-9a979f33201a
EDAN-URL:
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